Santa Clause Is Coming To Town!

Don & I took Bell to see Santa over at his Sugarhouse home. He was great, I highly recommend him and the line is almost non-existent! We (not including Don) have been far removed from the belief in Santa at our house so this has been a welcomed reminder of how fun it is when the magic is still alive.

Don and I have definitely have been using the line "Santa is watching you" lately. Does the belief in Santa help kids learn right and wrong? I do have the inclination make a sarcastic remark, but I'll hold my tongue because there's still a whole bunch of "childhood beings" that I still find very reluctant to deny. It is also working so that is another reason to not knock it...just look at her face!

I think when you have little ones it helps to remind you that Christmas used to be so magical...the honest sense of pure excitement on Christmas Eve as you think only of the morning to come! So tell that to the woman at the Walmart parking lot who flipped me off for taking "her" spot. Or tell that to the mob of people who stormed into the store and trampled the security guard over the last Xbox 360 and DVD player on sale... Or the store employees who don't want to look up and greet you as you come through the line, let alone say "Have a Nice Day".

I did receive an email forward that I actually liked called "The Cookie". It tells of a woman who is in an airport and has to wait for her plane. She purchases a packet of cookies and sits down to wait. Next to her sits a man, who blatantly reaches for a cookie from the bag sitting on the arm of the chair next to her. She begins to be very annoyed as he continues to take cookie after cookie in pace along with her. When there is only one cookie left in the bag she is furious as she sees him break it in half and leave the remaining half for her. She picks it up in a huff and heads for her flight. As she settles in her seat she reaches into her bag and pulls out an unopened bag of cookies... horrified she realized that the man never said a word as she dipped into HIS treat. Nice huh, he even had the graciousness to split his last one! Most likely did not happen but believable because you know that you've been in similar situations. The moral is you can't recover the stone after the throw...the word after it's said...the occasion after the loss and the time after it's gone.